Decorating with Fabric has sourced a large collection of Green, Organic and Sustainable Fabrics from around the globe. This page focuses on our line of Sustainable Silk from India.
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We are now creating fabulous window fashions with sustainable silk fabrics with USA grown organic cotton linings. 145 hand woven sustainable silk colors combined with certified organic cotton sateen lining and Flannel interlining.
SUSTAINABLE SILK FABRIC
The fabric is hand woven in India using individual family weavers that are directly supporting. Mulberry leaves that are fed to the silkworms, are organically fertilized with compost from Neem trees that are grown among the Mulberry trees. Fabrics are made on hand made wooden looms - some of which are at least 100 years old. No electrical energy is used in the spinning, weaving or dying process, leaving a zero carbon foot print. Painstaking weaving by hand - only 4 yards of silk is produced per day per loom.
CERTIFIED ORGANIC COTTON
We use only organic cotton that is purchased directly from the mill. Our suppliers are Certified Organic Cotton Fabric Producers and Members of the Organic Trade Association. "Certified Organic" means the item has been grown according to strict uniform standards that are verified by independent state or private organizations.
Certification includes inspections of farm fields and processing facilities, detailed record keeping, and periodic testing of soil and water to ensure that growers and handlers are meeting the standards which have been set.
SUSTAINABLE Silk Dupioni Fabrics and ORGANIC Cotton Linings
We offer the largest color selection of SUSTAINABLE and HAND WOVEN SILK DUPIONI. Double Lined using USA grown ORGANIC cotton - Drapes are lined with ORGANIC Cotton SATEEN and INTERLINED with Organic cotton FLANNEL. Here is some in-depth information about the processes that go into making the raw yarns.
What is Organic Cotton?
Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances bio diversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony. The primary goal of organic agriculture is to optimize the health and productivity of interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people.
Organic NEEM fertilizer and pest prevention
ORGANIC NEEM is used as a fertilizer. It was discovered that the NEEM TREE was the only living plant not devastated by the Sudanese Locust Plague, in 1957. The seeds and organic compost made from the Neem Tree to fertilize the Mulberry trees that are used to hand rear the Bombyx Morii silk worms. Also by using mostly natural dyes, we create a SUSTAINABLE silk product. Our fabrics are woven in cottage industry and we directly support the families that weave our cloth.
Double Nested Cocoons
Sometimes known as dupion or douppioni, silk dupioni is a shimmering silk that is created by weaving silk threads of two different colors into a weave that seems to change colors as the silk is moved around in different lights. Constructed with threads made from rough silk fibers that are harvested from double cocoons or single cocoons that are spun side by side and interlocked, silk dupioni generally employs a set of vibrant colors in the weave. Along with creating the shimmering effect, the choice of two different colors of rough silk fiber helps to create a crisp drape quality to the finished fabric.
Silk dupioni has an advantage over some other types of silks, in that dupioni tends to resist wrinkles, which helps to enhance the usability of the finished fabric. In addition, silk dupioni also has a tendency to take creases very well, which can give the final product a crisp and formal appearance. As an added bonus, silk dupioni is totally reversible, so it is perfectly acceptable for both sides of the material to be visible.
The Silk Dupioni is made ONLY from double nested cocoons. At this stage we can only offer our Silk Dupioni Solid fabric the Organic linings due to the fact that only this silk is hand dyed using organic compounds. Our other more complicated stripes and plaids are dyed in commercial labs and do not qualify.
